The Lion King - Media

Over the past 20 years it starts to get a little confusing to keep the
overview of all the different TLK media that's out there. On this
page I try to summarize what's out there at the moment and if
appropriate with an addition page containing further informations.
Please also note, that this is only a summary of the different media
from the original The Lion King movie, not of its sequels. For them
please have a look at the different movie categories. Also, this site
is work in progress. I'm at the moment inventory my media collection
and when that's finished, I will regenerate this webpage with more
information.

Compact Discs

Since 1994 a lot of different soundtracks versions, singles and special
editions appeared. The following table tries the insane task to collect
all these version.

Soundtracks

The Lion King

Release: June 1994

Language: English

Duration: 46 min.

Tracks: 12

Comment: The classical and original soundtrack
from The Lion King with its epic music transporting the audience directly into the heart of Africa...
more

Der König der Löwen (German)

Release: November 1994

Language: German

Duration: 42 min.

Tracks: 11

Comment: The German version of the classical and original soundtrack
from The Lion King, which contains all singing songs in German and another score "Hyenas" that is not
in the original English version.

The Lion King (Special Edition)

Release: September 30, 2003

Language: English

Duration: 50 min.

Tracks: 14

Comment: The Special Edition was a re-release of the soundtrack from The Lion King for the DVD release and
have the same songs as the original OST. In addition there are two new songs. The first one is the morning
report and the other one a remixed version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight".

Best of The Lion King

Release: September 6, 2011

Language: English

Duration: 50 min.

Tracks: 12

Comment: A compilation of the 'best' Lion King songs from all three movies.

Blu-Ray Discs

The long awaited High-Definition release of The Lion King starts in August 2011 on
Blu-Ray Discs as well in Blu-Ray 3D. Moreover, there is quite a lot of new bonus
material, never seen before deleted scenes and many more.

Boxes and Trilogies

Le Roi Lion La Trilogie

Release: August 24, 2011

Language: English 7.1 (DTS-HD MA), French 7.1 (DTS-HD HR)

Duration: 88 min.

Resolution: 1920x1080

Video Aspect: 1.78:1

Encoding: AVC (MPEG-4)

Region Code: A, B, C

Discs: 3

Comment: This was one of the firsts released version of The Lion King in french,
even one month before the release in the US. Contains all three movies: TLK, Simba's Pride and
The Lion King 3.

DVD

The DVD release of The Lion King was awaited for really quite a long
time, caused by the lack of a digital media. Only the Laserdisc (see
below for more information) was close in quality, but didn't offer a
comparable picture. With the DVD release in 2003, The Lion King was
also released in IMAX theaters and because of this release and therefore
the cleanup of the movie greatly benefit to the DVD release. In fact
it is one of the best releases of an classically animated movie on
DVD. With this release an additional scene was created, called "The
Morning Report" and lots of bonus material, which could only be found
on the Laserdisc before.

Laserdiscs

When The Lion King was released on video in 1994, there were no digital
or degenerating home video media other than a so-called Laserdisc (LD),
which is basically a large CD but as 12 inch disc. The video and audio
is stored on this disc usually on both sides. Don't get blinded by its
optical nature of the disc, the video at least is still an analogue
composite signal. The audio track at least can be two channel PCM, or
even a digital surround DTS track.

The Lion King (CLV)

Release: 1995

Language: English

Audio tracks: Analogue and 2.0 PCM Stereo

Discs: 1

Format: CLV

Comment: The first Laserdisc release of The
Lion King. See the detailed description of the deluxe edition for information about
the content. Although this is CLV Disc only containing the movie.

Comment: Back in 1994 this was the
ultimative box, because it contained a lot of
Bonus material, including a 30 minutes Making
of, lots of Concept pictures and short
video clips about different production steps,
interviews with the artits and commentaries....
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Games

Since the release of The Lion King in 1994, also a lot of different computer games
were released. Mostly Jump and Run, but also puzzles and for educational use. The
Lion King games were almost released for every platform (at least from the past)
like PC (DOS, Windows), Mac and video game consoles, like NES, SNES, Sega and
so on.